With the prospects for a comprehensive agreement coming out of Kyopenhagen having dimmed considerably, CTV is already looking ahead to the next stop for the COP’s movable feast:

With China and the United States sparring over who should cut greenhouse gas emissions, and who should pay, it’s appearing more likely this week’s climate talks in Copenhagen will end without a substantive treaty.
China, considered a developing nation at the talks, says it needs aid from developed nations, such as the U.S., to make cuts to its emissions.
The world’s largest polluter is also resisting attempts from the U.S. and other nations to make their cuts binding and open to international scrutiny, rather than voluntary.
It’s a bad omen for a week that started with developing countries temporarily boycotting the Copenhagen negotiations. The countries refused to participate further saying they feared industrial countries were backpedalling in their promises to cut greenhouse gases.
After an hours-long standoff, the negotiations resumed later in the evening when developing nations were assured their objections would be heard. But deep divisions remain.
With time running out on the two-week-long conference, the chances that a legally binding treaty will emerge have dimmed, with the focus now turning to the hope that a substantive political pact can be reached instead.
“The next few days are crunch days,” The Globe and Mail’s Eric Reguly told CTV’s Canada AM from Copenhagen. “But I suspect that with all these world leaders arriving, they’ve got to pull something out of a hat, and fast.”
More than 110 world leaders have begun to arrive for the conference. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was planning to arrive Tuesday — a day earlier than planned — to help push the talks forward. U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are expected later this week.
Reguly says with more than two years of preparation and talks, leaders are under pressure to make a deal during this high-level stage of the conference.
“But it might be a deal so weak that it’s merely a licence to keep these talks going somewhere else sometime next year,” he noted.